March (lip gloss) Madness

I thought I couldn’t relate to the March Madness craze, since I don’t follow basketball (despite having a relative who’s a star player, shame on me). But then I got word of the Twist & Pout University collection lip balm collection — a great way to put your team spirit where your mouth is.

Florida State or San Francisco?? You decide!

Haven’t tried it myself but it’s got the usual combo of beeswax, vitamin E, shea butter and other moisturizers, so seems like will keep your lips from getting too chapped while cheering on your team. Here’s a list of some Bay Area stores that carry the line (call first to make sure they have the one you want because not all stores carry the full collection) They’re also available from Amazon in a two-pack for $12.50. The only bummer is that not all teams are available.

PurpleLabNYC.com

While I’m on the subject of lip gloss + madness, have you heard about the latest from Purple Lab?

It’s called Huge Lips, Skinny Hips, and it is a lip plumper infused with hoodia extract (which has been purported to help curb appetites).

2LoveMyLips.co.uk

No, I am not making this up. They sent us a tube of “Worship Kate” (as in Moss) — a plummy color that didn’t make our lips tingle too much and has a lovely Fruit Stripe gum-like flavor, but didn’t really stop us from eating a cupcake that a collegaue brought by for us either. Hmmmm.

And then there’s 2LoveMyLips, a tube of gloss that’s “cleverly packaged to include a drink spike detector testing kit.” The UK company offers five shades of gloss that come with testing trips designed to detect unwanted substances in an alcoholic beverages. Really not sure what to make of it, because while date-rape drug detection is important, it does seem like a pretty big warning sign that you should hail a cab and tell the suspicious date to kiss off if you think you might have a need to use one, right?